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either -- if assad remains in power, then iran, russia, hezbollah, and syria gain influence and they would get it at the expense of us and our allies in the region. >> and although the president has nod said he is seeking a regime change, he said the exact opposite, if there is a regime change we don't know what we're getting on the other end. i counted at least 26 different rebel groups, and i don't know whose king. we don't know what we're getting on the other end. >> that is correct, but we do know this. civil war grew out of opposition to the government that was mostly secular and western in orientation. we also know syria is a country with a broad middle class. islamists, just because of the nature with the syrians the allies, the sunnis, the christians, is a less islamist society than in the region. but you touch on an interesting point i want to go back to. there was a tension in the president's speech. the united states military doesn't do pinpricks. the united states will give a response they will remember. this is a point he made more robustly today when he met with republi
either -- if assad remains in power, then iran, russia, hezbollah, and syria gain influence and they would get it at the expense of us and our allies in the region. >> and although the president has nod said he is seeking a regime change, he said the exact opposite, if there is a regime change we don't know what we're getting on the other end. i counted at least 26 different rebel groups, and i don't know whose king. we don't know what we're getting on the other end. >> that is...
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they are behind problems with syria, problems with hezbollah, with hamas. they are destabilize go to israel. we may be on different time track than their nuclear weapons problem. so, there is going to come on a time we have to make a different decision? >> we've always said all options is on the table. the president has been clear on that. i am glad you raised the terrorism as peculiar of iran's behavior. there is so much attention on the effort to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon that we sometimes overlook the active efforts by the iranian revolutionary guard, their proxies like the lebanese hezbollah, to engage asags nations, bombings, destabilizing countries. that has been a very challenging ongoing threat. for a while, i have to tell you, when i came into office there were too many countries that were turning a blind eye to it. we have worked very hard to get the international community particularly the region, europe and elsewhere to say wait a minute. these guys need to be stopped on the terrorism front. they can't be permitted to go forward
they are behind problems with syria, problems with hezbollah, with hamas. they are destabilize go to israel. we may be on different time track than their nuclear weapons problem. so, there is going to come on a time we have to make a different decision? >> we've always said all options is on the table. the president has been clear on that. i am glad you raised the terrorism as peculiar of iran's behavior. there is so much attention on the effort to prevent them from getting a nuclear...
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>> you send a message to iran, hezbollah, and the rest of the world. i give you a great case in point in history. when rome could not defeat hannibal who was there in italy, they launched against their satellite colonies, in spain, which drew hannibal out of rome and they defeated him. that's what we have to do, look at who the real people that are sponsoring and supporting bashar al assad and go after them. what the president should have done, which would have been true leadership, he should have left the residual force in iraq instead of zeroing out our presence. now we don't have anything that stops iran's transiting through iraq. if we had left some type of force along the border, that would have been a deterrent. >> we're all going to be watching what goes on here, more debate. we want to ask you about another topic, it's about a court case. it's actually an atheist couple says the phrase under god violates student rights. the couple wants to remove it. a massachusetts judge rejected the case last year saying under god does not convert the exercis
>> you send a message to iran, hezbollah, and the rest of the world. i give you a great case in point in history. when rome could not defeat hannibal who was there in italy, they launched against their satellite colonies, in spain, which drew hannibal out of rome and they defeated him. that's what we have to do, look at who the real people that are sponsoring and supporting bashar al assad and go after them. what the president should have done, which would have been true leadership, he...
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how does hezbollah -- have they said how they intend to respond if this happens? >> reporter: well, those will be two different sets of responses from what we can tell. the syrian government has said they would respond and defend themselves against anybody who attacks them as any sovereign nation would. in term of what hezbollah and iran might do, that one gets a little more come reply kaxtd iran has spent upwards of a billion dollars arming. but programs as a buffer against any attack on their nuclear weapons program. so their political congratulations and response will be very much much more complicated than the syrians. >> what is the perspective? i realize various groups will have perspectives. what is the view of president obama there from the different group and even the united states right now? >> reporter: in some ways, probably surprisingly similar to senator mccain who i was just listening to. with the region right now desperately trying to figure out, will there be strikes? i think there is some certainty at this point that there will be some kind of re
how does hezbollah -- have they said how they intend to respond if this happens? >> reporter: well, those will be two different sets of responses from what we can tell. the syrian government has said they would respond and defend themselves against anybody who attacks them as any sovereign nation would. in term of what hezbollah and iran might do, that one gets a little more come reply kaxtd iran has spent upwards of a billion dollars arming. but programs as a buffer against any attack on...
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hezbollah is greatly emboldened and strengthened. we should continue with the u.s. policy that assad should go. uh how we get get there is another question. this particular operation would be to focus solely on the use of chemical weapons. it's possible that if airfields and aircraft are degraded and taken out that it could have an effect on the battle. i don't think there is any question that a very focused, limbed, proportional strike is in the best interest of national security. then we'll see what the policy should be. i would favor robust support for the opposition to the well vetted members of the opposition. i think we can do it. ultimately affect the outcome without the use of a larger operation. >> the problem with opposition is they have so many particles. there are 25, 26 groups. can we identify an opposition? can we arm the opposition and can they succeed? >> absolutely. that doesn't mean there aren't extreme elements. 50,000 fighters in the free syrian army. 37 to 40,000 in the liberation front. you have at least 80 to 100,000 potentially moderates. say
hezbollah is greatly emboldened and strengthened. we should continue with the u.s. policy that assad should go. uh how we get get there is another question. this particular operation would be to focus solely on the use of chemical weapons. it's possible that if airfields and aircraft are degraded and taken out that it could have an effect on the battle. i don't think there is any question that a very focused, limbed, proportional strike is in the best interest of national security. then we'll...
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they have hezbollah in their north. they have iran trying to build a nuclear weapon to eliminate them. the muslim brotherhood president of egypt. that strikes me as attacking the victim. >> greta: let me talk about the bigger picture issue. is this impossible for an american president? so many tried it, so many secretary of state's tried it and we manage the crisis from time to time, but the peace seems to be so elusive. >> i sometimes have trouble about being too candid about this. there is no peace process. this is nonsense. this is stuff western politicians do to feel good about themselves. hamas is dedicated to the destruction of israel. iran is dedicated to the destruction of israel. there are factions in syria dedicated to the destruction of israel. hezbollah is dedicated to the destruction of israel. muslim brotherhood want to destroy israel and elected the president. >> why did he go now in the second term? didn't seem to give much attention in the first term. why now? >> i have no idea. i think his polling numb
they have hezbollah in their north. they have iran trying to build a nuclear weapon to eliminate them. the muslim brotherhood president of egypt. that strikes me as attacking the victim. >> greta: let me talk about the bigger picture issue. is this impossible for an american president? so many tried it, so many secretary of state's tried it and we manage the crisis from time to time, but the peace seems to be so elusive. >> i sometimes have trouble about being too candid about this....
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they have gone and struck a supply train for hezbollah. they don't announce it. they used their intelligence to track it, hit it. no one says a thing. that's the way you have to do it. >> would you have been in favor of this had the -- the chemical weapons were set off august 21. if on august 22 unannounced which means the president didn't go to congress, unannounced, he gave the order and we went over and did essentially what we'll do now if we attack? >> that would have shown decisive action. to say we already have the resources in place and we have launched an attack because we don't believe it is in the good interests of international stability and also humanitarian beliefs that we should have chemical weapons launched and this is the action i took. end of story. i think people will understand that. when you sit back and you have this decision-making by committee, i can do it but i'm not going to do it. i will go to congress and get approval, that doesn't show decisive action. look what happened in libya. this is my concern. the unintended consequences. we we
they have gone and struck a supply train for hezbollah. they don't announce it. they used their intelligence to track it, hit it. no one says a thing. that's the way you have to do it. >> would you have been in favor of this had the -- the chemical weapons were set off august 21. if on august 22 unannounced which means the president didn't go to congress, unannounced, he gave the order and we went over and did essentially what we'll do now if we attack? >> that would have shown...
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he may well do that, he may try to shoot down our aircraft and attack israel, use hezbollah as a surrogate to strike the united states either overseas or the united states with terrorist attacks. the enemy is not going to sit back and let this happen. what happens after all the explosions and assad is still standing and willing to fight? it's not the libyan army, the syrian army, these are tough, blood thirsty killers. >> the arab league, they threw syria out, suspended him in november 2011 because of what was going on in syria. you'd think there would be enough regional muscle. they have a huge interest of this and they've already taken the action of throwing syria out of the arab league temporarily. >> i think it's because we're involved. >> why don't they lean on them to do it? >> they can't. they don't have the military mite, the commanding control, the cohesion. frankly, they don't have the military skill to go into -- >> i mean, then that's the answer. that's the answer. >> absolutely. >> so what is our goal here? >> i think our goal is retaliation and vengeance. i think it's pretty
he may well do that, he may try to shoot down our aircraft and attack israel, use hezbollah as a surrogate to strike the united states either overseas or the united states with terrorist attacks. the enemy is not going to sit back and let this happen. what happens after all the explosions and assad is still standing and willing to fight? it's not the libyan army, the syrian army, these are tough, blood thirsty killers. >> the arab league, they threw syria out, suspended him in november...
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al qaeda came in and most importantly hezbollah, 5,000 of them. the iranian revolutionary guard, the russians all in. because the iranians didn't want to lose their client syria. >> in light of where we are today though, if we did a sizable missile strike, we are not going to have regime change. what do we get on day two? that's the question. mer americans say, why are we doing this? >> that's a legitimate question. the key is to get the right weapons to the free syrian army. we know who they are. the saudis are getting weapons to the right people. if we did it in sizable amounts they can prevail. by the way, their morale is shattered now. >> what's the point? we are giving them light weapons. not the weapons they want. >> tanks, you're right. they need anti-armor, anti-air. we have been prevailing on the saudis not to give them that. it's got to be a fair fight. every day a plane lands from iran over flying iraq, by the way. another plane lands from russia filled with weapons into the seaport that the russians have. also, boat loads full of weapo
al qaeda came in and most importantly hezbollah, 5,000 of them. the iranian revolutionary guard, the russians all in. because the iranians didn't want to lose their client syria. >> in light of where we are today though, if we did a sizable missile strike, we are not going to have regime change. what do we get on day two? that's the question. mer americans say, why are we doing this? >> that's a legitimate question. the key is to get the right weapons to the free syrian army. we...
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he may use hezbollah as a surrogate to strike the united states overseas or at home. this is -- the enemy is not going to sit back and let this happen. what happens after all of these tea lamps explode in syria. and assad is still standing and he's still willing to fight. the syrian army is not the libyan army, not the serbian army, these are tough blood thirsty killers who have nothing to lose. delivering 250 or so tea limbs isn't going too end this. >> when i asked senator corker, why the arab league -- thria ou him in november 2011 because of what was going on in syria, you think there would be enough regional muscle that wouldn't -- maybe they have a huge interest in this, and they've already taken the action of throwing syria out of the arab league temporarily. >> well, i think it's because we're involved. i mean, one of the things -- >> why don't we lean on them to do it? >> we can't. they don't have -- they don't have the military might, they don't have the commanding role. they don't have the cohesion. frankly, they don't have the military skill -- >> that's t
he may use hezbollah as a surrogate to strike the united states overseas or at home. this is -- the enemy is not going to sit back and let this happen. what happens after all of these tea lamps explode in syria. and assad is still standing and he's still willing to fight. the syrian army is not the libyan army, not the serbian army, these are tough blood thirsty killers who have nothing to lose. delivering 250 or so tea limbs isn't going too end this. >> when i asked senator corker, why...